116 Clear Headed Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
Word famous inventor was hit with more than 600 lawsuits from persons claiming he stole the idea for his invention from them.

Marcia Smith 0:08
And how many kinds of spam are there? And what does the word spam stand for?

Bob Smith 0:15
Okay, yeah, answers to those and other spicy questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy. Take a side road to Saturday and get some perspective on life. Well, Marsha, I’ve got some things to give us some perspective coming up new words that the Merriam Webster dictionary is adding to the dictionary. But I also have this question What famous inventor was hit with more than 600 lawsuits from people claiming he stole the idea for his invention from them? I never think of this guy is being you know, consumed by lawsuits.

Marcia Smith 1:10
I think of Edison.

Bob Smith 1:12
Yeah, he probably had a lot of people suing him and he was suing a lot of other people too busy.

Marcia Smith 1:18
Oh, yeah. very litigious. I take it it wasn’t him. No, then I don’t know.

Bob Smith 1:20
But it was from that era from the 19th century, late 19th. century, late 19th century conventions. Yeah. At Granville. Yes, Alexander Graham Bell, who’s credited with the invention of the telephone. The bell company successfully resisted 600 lawsuits. Wow,

Marcia Smith 1:37
everybody’s going for that telephone.

Bob Smith 1:41
At the same time, the sheer number of lawsuits was testimony to the fact you’re right that hundreds of people were working on the idea of a telephone. Now, I found in reading recently about Morse code, the man who invented Morse code and also perfected the telegraph. He had a lot of lawsuits he had to fight through over the years too. And we think of that only being a modern problem, but it’s not it’s a been a problem in America from the beginning here an inventor.

Marcia Smith 2:08
What about other countries?

Bob Smith 2:09
I assume they have the same thing.

Marcia Smith 2:11
We probably have more lawyers than any country in the world.

Bob Smith 2:14
Yeah, yeah. This is true. This is basically true from the 1860s 1870s on Okay,

Marcia Smith 2:20
let’s move on to spam. Shall we SPAM spam? What does the word spam stand for based

Bob Smith 2:26
ham? No. Oh, what does it stand for that?

Marcia Smith 2:29
Special processed American meat?

Bob Smith 2:33
Oh, no kidding. Yeah. Okay,

Marcia Smith 2:36
and how many kinds BB of SPAM are there today?

Bob Smith 2:39
So they basically extended the brand. They have different versions? Correct? That is correct. So they have probably have cranberry spice SPAM and other things like that.

Marcia Smith 2:48
I don’t know about cranberry. Okay,

Bob Smith 2:50
tell me Well, how many just take a guess Okay, I’ll say 1010 is good. It’s 1313 different versions of span who knew that? Well, not me. I don’t go looking for though. You know, there

Marcia Smith 3:00
are various kinds lots of salt, no salt, blah, but it includes hot and spicy SPAM , black pepper, jalapeno, spam, Hickory, bacon and cheese, roasted turkey. These are all types. Why would you get roasted turkey canned ham?

Bob Smith 3:17
I don’t know why would you do can’t him anyway. I mean, I don’t know about taking it. I could see taking it on trips and stuff. You know, and opening it up very

Marcia Smith 3:26
popular different parts of the world. Not in our kitchen. Have you ever eaten it? I’d never

Bob Smith 3:32
Oh, yeah, we ate it when I was a kid. You did? Yeah. at the kitchen table.

Marcia Smith 3:35
But it might just throw the no you

Bob Smith 3:38
You can actually make a nice one that you could make a real tasty meal was spam. I can tell you, but do you heat it up? Yeah, you heat it up. You heat it up. Like you heat up any meat. You don’t eat it cold.

Marcia Smith 3:49
Okay, but kiss him and it can just well I know it sounds strange.

Bob Smith 3:52
And of course it got very big during World War Two direction.

Marcia Smith 3:56
That’s exactly right.

Bob Smith 3:57
That’s when remember our friend Mary Bestwick. My cousin we met in England and we went visited her. Her husband when I first met them. He is was a World War Two vet, obviously a British soldier. He told me that was the thing he found most fascinating about Americans that they had this thing called SPAM And at least it was a big hit in Great Britain.

Marcia Smith 4:16
Well, it was introduced by Hormel in 1937. Okay. And it gained popularity worldwide after it’s used during World War Two. So that that goes in with your cousin’s story. That’s correct.

Bob Smith 4:30
I’ve got three different positive animal stories from National Geographic. Did you know animals now have their own COVID 19 vaccine? Yeah, lions, tigers, hyenas, gorillas and other animals at zoos across the United States have been infected but thanks to a vaccine from a veterinary pharmaceutical company called XO lettuce. And I used to do actually voiceovers for them. It used to be Pfizer’s Zoe T is they initially tested its vaccine in cats and dogs All zoos have had some 10,000 doses to vaccinate more than 100 species so they do need to be vaccinated

Marcia Smith 5:07
from COVID I

Bob Smith 5:08
didn’t think about that. Speaking of COVID Here’s a question for you. What did they just discover about bees relating to pandemics?

Marcia Smith 5:17
Well, golly, I don’t know. They do they spread it. No good.

Bob Smith 5:22
How do they behave when they know there’s a pandemic? They know there’s a pandemic bees know when there’s a pandemic among their hives. What do

Marcia Smith 5:31
they do find their hives? Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, they go to another hive.

Bob Smith 5:35
No, they socially distance now. Yes. Just like humans. Yeah, this is a new study comes out of Italy. Honeybees avoid each other during plagues. A recent study out of the University of sorry, in Italy found that the insects in hives infected by parasites set up their own form of little lock downs. And they’ll they’ll segregate themselves in different parts of the hive to prevent parasites from spreading. They actually compared Yeah, hives that didn’t have this hives it did. And they notice how they’re gathered over here. And there’s some gathered over here. And you know, there are different types of worker bees.

Marcia Smith 6:11
And this guy Fauci isn’t alone with his social distancing. It’s not just a human thing. He’s got the honeybees with him. Do it, too. Okay, Bob. It’s holidays and board games are coming out. Yay. Reader’s Digest. Has a whole article about board games this month. Did

Bob Smith 6:29
you say board games or board games board game? Okay. D on there? Yes.

Marcia Smith 6:34
Sorry. Interesting. Actually go back, Bob to the time of King Tut.

Bob Smith 6:38
Yes. I know. They found them in Egyptian. Yeah, he

Marcia Smith 6:42
played all sorts of game cards. He was just a child. But anyway, did

Bob Smith 6:45
they have brand names? Like per cheesy on them or not? Yes. Okay. It wasn’t until

Marcia Smith 6:50
the 19th century, however, that board games began to be sold commercially. I didn’t think it would take that long. It started in England. The first one was called mansion of happiness in 1800. And the mansion was having an players race to get there. Get to heaven. So here’s the question. What is the most sold board game of all time?

Bob Smith 7:16
The most sold board game of all time? Not? Why not? So you led like it’s the most sold? Good. Okay. Oh, you are so

Marcia Smith 7:24
proof. I’d

Bob Smith 7:24
say it’s monopoly. You

Marcia Smith 7:26
know, I would have gone there. But I am surprised. Is it checkers now? What is it? Chess?

Bob Smith 7:33
Really? Yeah. And it’s one of the oldest games too. Yes. 3 million

Marcia Smith 7:37
copies currently are sold every year just in the US. Wow. And it dates back to 1200 ad. And it’s all about trying to capture what your opponent’s king. That’s why it goes way back. Right. It gets a king and the queen and and the minions. It’s fun to know that it goes back that far in time and was the all time popular board game. We

Bob Smith 7:59
had that one question. What was chess for ladies that was checkers? Yeah. Oh, that is bizarre. Well, Marcia, every year about this time, the lexicographers lexicographers, that’s actually the term working for Merriam Webster, they, they decide that they’re going to add new words that have come in to us. Sometimes they’re old words, but they add them back into the dictionary. digital nomad is one. Have you ever heard of that? No. That’s someone who performs her occupation entirely over the internet while traveling. So that’s a new term they’ve added. And of course, that makes sense with the pandemic and so forth. Here’s DadBod you’ve heard him say that the physique regarded as typical of the average father, that’s a piece of slang, it goes back to about 2003 That’s fine. copypasta

Marcia Smith 8:47
Wait, hold on. Let me just think that’s a word that they put in the dictionary. Yeah. copypasta

Bob Smith 8:50
or pasta. It’s a noun. It I don’t know. It’s just exactly what you think it might be data such as a block of text that’s been copied and spread widely online. So this is just a little bit of copy pasta. It’s

Marcia Smith 9:04
funny. I like that. I

Bob Smith 9:05
thought that was converted. And then full hook at the UX ha Wk you know what that is? Hold on. Let me think. Faux Hawk, pretend bird pretend Mohawk haircut. Oh, it’s just slicking your hair upwards to resemble a mohawk. That’s it. That’s a new word that’s been added in 2021 to the dictionary

Marcia Smith 9:27
that common that they actually

Bob Smith 9:28
put it in? Yeah, yeah, there’s there’s some more we’ll go through later. All

Marcia Smith 9:32
right. Well, back to board games. Bob. No more board games questions. Good. If you live in Chile, and play popular board games. Who is Chef lettuce? Chef

Bob Smith 9:43
lettuce? Is this like Chef Boyardee? Only? It’s Chef lettuce. This

Marcia Smith 9:48
isn’t a board game popular board game at which you know, and this character. I know this board game. Yes. And Jeff letters. Yeah, whom do they called chef lettuce.

Bob Smith 9:58
Oh, I have no idea who was

Marcia Smith 10:02
would that base amused me? It’s Mr. Green in the game of Clue.

Bob Smith 10:08
That’s the name they call it. Yeah, that’s a Larry gave

Marcia Smith 10:11
all their characters you know different names but that was my favorite so oh

Bob Smith 10:15
my goodness. I love that. That’s good.

Marcia Smith 10:18
I’ll take chef lead. Chef

Bob Smith 10:20
lettuce for two. Okay, good. All right, we got winter weather coming in, right? All across North America is happening. I got a list of the 10 snowiest states and I wonder how many of those you can get the 10 snowiest, dates, and

Marcia Smith 10:35
I’ll just name as many as I can think of. Okay, I think are the snow. Yes, Alaska. Alaska

Bob Smith 10:40
is one of the 10 Let me tell you what, that’s about 64 inches average, although some parts of it can get a lot more than that. 64 inches average, what? A year. A year. 64 inches of snow a year. Well, they

Marcia Smith 10:52
had more than that. When I lived in Marquette, Michigan.

Bob Smith 10:55
That’s an average now. Yeah, there’s certain parts of the state have more than others. I’m gonna give you average numbers here. Okay.

Marcia Smith 11:01
Michigan,

Bob Smith 11:02
Michigan. What about Michigan?

Marcia Smith 11:04
I think that’s one of the

Bob Smith 11:05
Cowboys states. Yeah. Yes, it is. And their average is 60.66 inches. But as you said, as you said, parts of the Yupi receive over 180 inches of snow annually. The upper peninsula, Minnesota, Michigan is number six. By the way. I forgot to tell you that. Alaska was number five. Number six was Michigan. And then you said Minnesota, I believe it or not, Minnesota is not one of the top 10

Marcia Smith 11:30
Really? No, no. Okay, then let me see. Okay. Buffalo. Where is that? New York, New York

Bob Smith 11:35
is number seven. They have 55.32 inches, same things. They can have lake effect snow, they can drop a lot of stuff. Washington State Washington State. No, they’re not one of the top 10 Let me tell you about Wisconsin because that’s your home state is it’s number 10.

Marcia Smith 11:51
Oh, it is? Well, of course. You know what up north had today? Five feet today? Wow.

Bob Smith 11:57
Yeah. Today in one day. Well, 45.79 inches, but again, the state’s northern region has been up to 100 inches a year in Wisconsin. Wyoming is number nine with 51 inches. Now Sam wouldn’t have thought of that. Yeah. And also they have the same thing. One ranger station in Yellowstone sees an average snowfall of 262 inches of snow but parts of the state record as little as 15 to 20 inches of snow because number one, who is number one, let’s go backwards. The top four are Colorado 67 inches. New Hampshire. 71 inches Maine 77 inches and the state with the most snow is Vermont. Oh wait. They have an average of 89.25 inches now they’re home to the their home to the Green Mountains and the average snowfall registers 80 to 100 inches in the winter months there. So they’ve got the heaviest average at 9.25 inches. Vermont the state with the most snow

Marcia Smith 12:57
once you think Alaska over Vermont. Yeah, you think so.

Bob Smith 13:00
It’s got the most range of territory, you know, hundreds and hundreds of miles whereas Vermont’s a tiny yesterday

Marcia Smith 13:06
I know that befuddles me, and when I moved up to Marquette, Michigan for a few years for a newspaper job, I remember I went in May and I saw snow under a tree and I went oh my gosh.

Bob Smith 13:20
Well, we’ve we’ve seen that in Wyoming. We saw when we went to Yellowstone, Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons they had a tons of snow eon May it was middle May. Yeah. Interesting. So I just thought that’s kind of nice to review, which, where’s the most snow gonna fall as the changes of the season occur? As you know, I love the changes with your shirt. No, I don’t

Marcia Smith 13:42
I do. Okay, the inventors of Trivial Pursuit, Bob, Chris Hani and Scott Abbott. Could have been you but no. Came up. Came up for the idea of that game during the playing of what game?

Bob Smith 13:56
They were playing a game when they thought of that. Yeah. Was it a game with information?

Marcia Smith 14:01
No, it’s something we play in various forms. But it’s

Bob Smith 14:05
not an information oriented game. No. What was it?

Marcia Smith 14:08
It was Scrabble. Oh, and the success of Trivial Pursuit brought a years long battle between those guys. And you’ll love this. And the encyclopedias who claimed that Hani, one of those guys took trivia from his books. He wrote encyclopedias. And in the end, the Federal Court this is important because this is our show, right? It’s all about trivia. In the end, a federal court decided you can’t steal trivia, and dismiss the suit in the 1980s Trivial Pursuit outsold monopoly. Remember we were playing it Oh yeah. And racked up 800 million in sales in 1984. Alone. That’s the year we bought the game I met with company would come over and we play That’s right. That’s exactly right. Once you off Word money for your trivia. Trivia? Yes, I never knew how much that would have been.

Bob Smith 15:05
Well, I didn’t want to sell it, because I knew we’d be doing the show in 30 years.

Marcia Smith 15:10
I just wanted to know how much

Bob Smith 15:13
but Marcia kept saying why don’t we sell it? Why don’t we sell?

Marcia Smith 15:14
I said how much and that would have determined my let’s sell it.

Bob Smith 15:19
Let’s take a break. From all of this. All right, we’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith.

Marcia Smith 15:27
Notice I had a pause. Like I forgot it for a second how long

Bob Smith 15:36
we’re back with the off rep with Bob and Marcia Smith and trivia Marcia, I have an interesting question about geography. But you know, you ever thought about that if I drilled through the earth what’s the what’s going to be on the other side of the Earth from our country? You

Marcia Smith 15:50
can’t get past the middle. No, but that’s this is theoretical Marsh Oh, yeah. Don’t

Bob Smith 15:54
let don’t let science getting in the way of having fun. Okay. Okay. So this is this is a question about Hawaii. We know Hawaii is out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Correct. But if you took Hawaii what is the country that’s on the exact opposite side of the world from Honolulu, Hawaii?

Marcia Smith 16:12
I don’t know. I’m trying to see a globe in my head. You fold it over. Tell me well,

Bob Smith 16:16
if you were on the beach somewhere in Honolulu, and you started digging in the sand all the way through the center of the earth to the other side, you’d end up in Botswana, Africa, South African countries, Hawaii’s antipode you know what an antipode idea. That means it’s found on the exact opposite side of the globe, I’ll be dead and most of the rest of the United States is antipodal to the Indian Ocean, so a hole straight through the earth from the US would just get you wet. And directly opposite from Honolulu is a small village of Dakar, which is Botswana’s ganseys district in the middle of the Kalahari Desert. So would you be in a desert if you got from Hawaii? Through I know just kind of interesting? Yeah, yes. From traveled trivia. I want to make sure they get credit so they don’t sue us for stealing their

Marcia Smith 16:59
trivia you do love trivia from travel travel. trivia.com Okay, Bob, this is good. Stress isn’t good Bob. No, it’s not for people or animals. No, no, no, it isn’t. For instance, why is a hungry really stressed octopus? What is he prone to do?

Bob Smith 17:19
What is a hungry and stressed octopus prone to do? Correct Well, probably attacking anything it can to eat? I don’t know. But it’s going to wrap eight arms around something. Well,

Marcia Smith 17:30
it has a way of dealing with the problem. It eats its own arms. What?

Bob Smith 17:34
No kidding. A stressed octopus actually eats itself.

Marcia Smith 17:39
Yes. And the malady of eating yourself. It eats its own arms. And this malady of eating yourself to death is called autophagy. Auto pa je je y. And it means self cannibalism. And it is not considered healthy. Oh, no, I wouldn’t think so for reasons of infection,

Bob Smith 18:03
for a lot of reasons. Yeah. What? So if you eat yourself, you can infect yourself. So keep

Marcia Smith 18:07
that in mind. Straight next time. You

Bob Smith 18:09
don’t get the sticks and already would want to steal that trivia. Okay, Marcia. Let’s talk about state capitals. All right. There’s a lot of state capitals, 50 states in the United States. What is the most populous state capitol? Oh, that’s basically the biggest city that happens to be a state capitol. Okay. I’ll give you names.

Marcia Smith 18:29
Oh, I had a choice.

Bob Smith 18:29
I give you choices. Raleigh, North Carolina, Phoenix, Arizona, Providence, Rhode Island, Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta, Atlanta. That makes sense. It’s the largest city in the south east United States, I believe. But no, it’s Phoenix. Phoenix is the only state Capitol with more than a million citizens. In fact, it’s grown so much in the past 20 years. It has 1.7 million people who call it home. So Phoenix is the fifth most populous city nationwide, but the most populous state capitol. Phoenix is also the fastest growing city in the nation. According to the US Census Bureau. Between 2017 and 2018 alone it went up 25,000 people okay yeah, so Phoenix that’s the most populous state capitol a

Marcia Smith 19:13
couple of quick ones okay. What did the words race car and kayak have in common?

Bob Smith 19:18
Race car and kayak? Think about it race car Kai Yak. Hmm, that well, they chi now I don’t know. What do they have in common share

Marcia Smith 19:29
with picture the words?

Bob Smith 19:30
Yeah, I see. Race Car. Car. Yeah, the same number letters. I

Marcia Smith 19:34
don’t know. They both are palindromes, meaning they’re spelled the same way left to right or right to left backwards are the same. Oh, no, I love palindrome. I

Bob Smith 19:43
know you love that style. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 19:44
Okay. According to NASA Bob, there are three foods that astronauts miss the most during space missions. Can you name them?

Bob Smith 19:53
Are they things like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? I mean, are they it’s like

Marcia Smith 19:56
that, but it’s not. Yeah, I mean, number one is P Sir, that’s number two. Oh, and one

Bob Smith 20:02
is ice cream. Oh, and they can’t have ice cream and I

Marcia Smith 20:07
think it’s something to do with melting and floating. Oh

Bob Smith 20:09
yeah, it has to be something that holds together. Yeah, soda pop is

Marcia Smith 20:13
the third so ice cream pizza and soda pop. They miss that the most Oh,

Bob Smith 20:17
I bet soda pop would be difficult because probably all those oxygen bubbles could go floating around the space.

Marcia Smith 20:23
Many things that will cause shall we say gas? Oh, yeah,

Bob Smith 20:27
we don’t want that. Yeah, you know, problems bass with that. Okay, I’ve got some more words that have been added to the dictionary Merriam Webster dictionary and 21 air fryer is a new one. Oh, yeah. filler and airtight usually small electrical appliance for quick cooking of foods by means of convection currents circulated rapidly by a fan. Here’s one a slang term. Me right Ami. Alrighty, II. You know what that means? Now, am I right? no means am I right? That’s what it means. I

Marcia Smith 20:59
just gonna say no, you’re wrong. And so I guess I heard that. Yes. It’s

Bob Smith 21:03
used to represent or imitate the use of a question in informal speech, a tag question. They call it at the end of it. All right. The term breakthrough in the medical sense was a new word that they’ve added this year, infection occurring in someone who’s fully vaccinated against an infectious agent. That is a new definition for breakthrough. They always had breakthroughs in technology.

Marcia Smith 21:24
Okay, but the different definition Okay, gotcha. And then

Bob Smith 21:27
I’ll just add two more doorbell camera. That’s now considered a new word. Okay. Those small cameras designed for use on you know, security doors with a built in microphone and a picture. And then flutter nutter.

Marcia Smith 21:40
Wait, let me guess what that is a flutter? What is it? Flutter?

Bob Smith 21:44
Nutter is the word for peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich. It actually dates back to 1961. But for some reason, that became very popular in the past year, and now it’s been added to the dictionary SP

Marcia Smith 21:57
at COVID Crazy thing probably. Let’s put this together.

Bob Smith 22:01
Flutter Nutter Okay, sounds almost obscene. Okay, okay.

Marcia Smith 22:05
What percent Bob percent of the known animal species on Earth have six legs.

Bob Smith 22:12
six legs. Yeah. Now are these land animals?

Marcia Smith 22:16
Yeah, I suppose it’s animal species. How many? What percent? How? Okay,

Bob Smith 22:21
just a moment. Give me a moment to think about things. compat You’re always saying I got Oh, is

Marcia Smith 22:27
that what I know? She drooling Well, I’m

Bob Smith 22:32
imitating. Sorry, just kidding. Okay, let’s say 6% of the 6% of the animals in the world have six legs. Well, this

Marcia Smith 22:41
will surprise you. Okay, little shock and awe here. 80%? Really? Yeah.

Bob Smith 22:46
80% of the animals in the world have six layer

Marcia Smith 22:49
species. We’re just at

Bob Smith 22:51
a disadvantage. We

Marcia Smith 22:52
are there. The whole buncha out there that that amaze me. Okay. And Bob? Is the population us two legged people is that Earth’s population still growing?

Bob Smith 23:04
of human beings? Yeah. Well, yes.

Marcia Smith 23:05
How much? Well, gee, I

Bob Smith 23:08
don’t know what the percentage you know

Marcia Smith 23:10
that percentage. How many millions? Do we grow by every year? Oh, that’s

Bob Smith 23:14
a good question. Okay. Yeah, cuz it’s probably okay. I would say it’s a 20 million

Marcia Smith 23:20
people a year more 20 million. Yeah, it’s actually 50 50 million more people every year by 2100. There will be around 11 point 5 billion people on the planet. Currently there are 7.9 billion people right now. And the planet. Yeah.

Bob Smith 23:36
Can you remember when we were kids? It was like 2 billion people? No, I

Marcia Smith 23:39
don’t remember counting them. Yeah. You weren’t born weren’t? Little Bobby Smith and you

Bob Smith 23:46
don’t you’re in a small town. There’s

Marcia Smith 23:47
no. Put your hand down. I can’t Yeah. So 50 million a year was still growing. I thought populations weren’t procreating as much and it might have gone way down, but obviously not.

Bob Smith 23:59
You’re wrong. Okay. I have a question. Education. All right. You’ve heard of the Ivy League? Yes. Okay. Which of these cities does not have an Ivy League school? Okay. Ivy League schools are? Usually east coast. Okay.

Marcia Smith 24:12
Don’t they have ivy on the side?

Bob Smith 24:13
Well, originally there were schools that were grouped together for a 1950s Athletic Conference. That’s where the term came. Oh, is it? Yeah. And today, the Ivy League consists of eight prestigious private universities. I can give you that list later. But tell me these cities, which city does not have an Ivy League school? I think it’s kind of surprising. Boston, Princeton, New York City or Providence, Rhode Island.

Marcia Smith 24:35
Wow. New York City.

Bob Smith 24:38
No, no. New York City has no. Boston. What do you think of Boston is

Marcia Smith 24:44
by them? Yes.

Bob Smith 24:46
Colleges, but like Harvard is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It’s not in Boston. It’s nearby. But Boston is the only one of those cities that doesn’t have an Ivy League school within its city limits. The schools are Harvard, Princeton and Princeton, New Jersey Columbia, which is in New York City, Yale, which is in New Haven, Connecticut, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, Brown in Providence, Rhode Island and Cornell in Ithaca, New York. Okay. Those are the eight prestigious private universities that were grouped together for a 1950s Athletic Conference that they called Ivy League. Yeah, so who cares about that? It’s trivia Marsh. As we know people steal trivia, it’s worth something.

Marcia Smith 25:29
How many trees Bob are needed to supply China with chopsticks each year? Oh, cheese.

Bob Smith 25:35
This is a lumber question.

Marcia Smith 25:37
It is a tree

Bob Smith 25:39
How many trees are required for chopsticks in China? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 25:42
They use 57 billion pairs of chopsticks a year? Yeah, 57 billion. Yeah, they take up almost 4 million trees to produce those chopsticks. 4 million trees. Holy cow. Yeah, that’s According to various sources, including Environmental Law. Professor blog. Most of the estimates are even more than that. Okay,

Bob Smith 26:04
more words. Merriam Webster added to the 21 vaccine passport. That’s a new one. We all know what that is. Yes. super spreader was a new term they added to the deck and then this one, this is an abbreviation tbh. It’s like a texting tbh. What does that stand for?

Marcia Smith 26:20
Tbh to be higher ranked? To be honest.

Bob Smith 26:24
Ah, to be honest, which you should never have to say. Yeah, because

Marcia Smith 26:29
you’re lying. You’ve

Bob Smith 26:30
been lying all the time. All right.

Marcia Smith 26:32
All right. I’m about to get to my end quote here.

Bob Smith 26:34
Okay. Let me ask you one more question. Okay, dates, because I got kind of a fun one here. All right. This is like something you might hear on Jeopardy, but I’m just gonna tell you the states, but this is a curious one. Which two states have capitals with rhyming names. I’m gonna give you the states. The names of the capitals rhymed with each other. The capitals of North Dakota and Nebraska, Rhode Island and Tennessee, Massachusetts and Texas, or South Carolina and Michigan, you have 10 seconds. That’s not easy, isn’t it? Wow. It’s Texas and Massachusetts. It’s Austin and Boston. Oh,

Marcia Smith 27:11
that okay. That’s where I went. I went to Dallas and that didn’t work. All right. I’m going to close with my beloved Winston Churchill. Okay. Okay. He said, all the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word. freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy,

Bob Smith 27:32
and hope. That’s great. That that touched you. Thank you very much. And we hope we’ve touched you with her show today. Hope you’re enjoying yourself as we get all ready for the holiday season here. We hope you’ll join us next time when we return with more trivia. In the meantime, I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:49
I’m Marcia Smith, and this has been the off ramp.

Bob Smith 27:54
The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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